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Friday 18 Apr 2008 10:17:53 by Col

Go on then, we'll wear black and blue as long as we get to see Luis Figo, Patrick Vieira and Hernan Crespo wearing it for us. Full match preview now online.

You know, this might be our final game to be played in the Black and White kit. Well final game for another hundred years, till we celebrate the bicentenary (and we'll get it right that time I promise), but it might just be our last game in a black and white kit.
Of course, we're talking a long shot of us either missing out on the play offs completely, or scraping into that top three, but the decision to wear next season's kit for our final game of the season has incurred the wrath of the support.

It would not be wrong to say that there are many different opinions from supporters. There are those who feel that we shouldn't be playing in the colours of black and blue at all, some feel that we should, but not yet, those who think it should or should not be on sale, and there's some people who are really looking forward to seeing next season's kit. Next season.

But throughout all of the opinions, it is undeniable that there is a very strong viewpoint amongst the club's support base that we should not under any circumstances be wearing the 2008-9 kit on the final game of this season. And I think that's a very important point which needs to be made, that it is a viewpoint amongst the club's support base, and not just people on "that messageboard".

The days of a messageboard reflecting a small insignificant proportion of supporters are long gone. Of course, it's not 100% of the club's support, but was certainly significant enough to ask supporters' views on the colours of the new kit back in September or whenever the decision was made.

This is a wrong decision, and one which needs to be reversed. Nobody will lose face over this decision. It won't be a victory for the fans over the club. If it's a victory for anyone, it will be a victory for common sense. The Centenary season has been a big disappointment and a let down for the fans. Don't kick them in the teeth as it approaches its conclusion.

As I said on the messageboard last week, we as one of the country's least successful sides finally having a chance to make it in their centenary season, which has seen us revert to our centenary kit. Almost makes you think its fate that we're going up. You don't mess with that.

So Saturday could well bring the Centenary to a close in the same way that the Centenary has been handled throughout the last eleven months. You couldn't make it up. Anyway, off my soapbox now.